“I asked senior US officials on Taiwan in 2017 why they did not oppose Tsai, since she had started changing the status quo. And they told me, ‘The status quo is always changing.’ So the US’ promise of maintaining the status quo is nothing but a lie,” Wang Ping-Chung, a political commentator from Chinese Taiwan, told GDToday reporter in an interview.
On August 2 to 3, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Chinese Taiwan region and met with Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen, despite China's strong opposition. At a recent press conference, Pelosi claimed that her visit was about "Taiwan's democracy" and did not seek to change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin on August 12 slammed Pelosi's visit as a challenge to the internationally recognized one-China principle and a trampling on democracy.
Who is changing the status quo across the Taiwan Strait? What is the US' plan? What is Tsai Ing-wen's role in cross-Strait relations? Wang Ping-chung, who was the spokesman for Chinese Taiwan's New Party shares his insight with GDToday.
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